Archive for Airport Economics

Impact of Price Regulation on Airport Charges

Mar 26, 2012 No Comments by

Airport Charges and Price Regulation in Germany

As part of the master program Transport and Supply Chain Management (TSCM) at VU University in Amsterdam I did a thesis research concerning the impact of price regulation on airport charges.The research was aimed to provide an answer … Read more…

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Airports Developing Air Services for Cargo versus Passenger Airlines

Mar 26, 2012 No Comments by

Over the years Air Service Development has developed into a valuable tool for airports to keep their fate into their own hands. By actively providing air service analyses to airlines,airports are able to expand their client and route portfolio. Besides actively targeting passenger airlines also … Read more…

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Assessing the Efficacy of Dynamic Adaptive Airport Planning

Mar 21, 2012 No Comments by

Airport Strategic Planning focuses on the development of plans for the medium–term and long-term development of an airport. Strategic planning can be done in many different ways. For airports, the dominant approach is Airport Master Planning, which results in a static plan that fails if … Read more…

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Bottlenecks at the Departure Concourse of Airports for the 2014 World Cup

Dec 05, 2011 No Comments

By Giovanna Miceli Ronzani and Anderson Ribeiro Correia

Brazil will be hosting two important international events: FIFA soccer world cup – 2014 and the Summer Olympic games in 2016. Since several international tourists will be traveling to and within Brazil, the airports must be prepared … Read more…

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Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

Dec 05, 2011 No Comments

John Kasarda’s work on airports and the aerotropolis is certainly not new. For over a decade, he (re-)publishes books and articles: mostly case studies based on his airport consultation work. His new book is written by journalist Greg Lindsay who followed the aerotropolis guru on … Read more…

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Public Participatory GIS in urban planning around a Major Gateway of Latin America

Dec 05, 2011 No Comments

By Gustavo Sobreiro Santos, Rogéria de Arantes Gomes Eller, Emmanuel Antonio dos Santos

In Brazil, there is a lack in urban planning on aircraft noise impacted areas. People living around airports are often not aware of land use restrictions that are determined by different levels … Read more…

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Brazil Needs a Much More Modern Airport Infrastructure Model

Jun 27, 2011 No Comments

By Respicio A. Espirito Santo Jr.1, Erivelton Pires Guedes2, Dorieldo Luiz dos Prazeres3, Rogerio Pecci Filho4

During the AIRPORT EVOLUTION LATIN AMERICA 2011 conference in São Paulo on May 11th‐12th what many suspected became true: neither Infraero nor the federal authorities in Brasilia have a … Read more…

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Ready for Take-Off? Financing New High-Tech Ventures in the Aviation Industry. The case of the Mainport Innovation Fund.

Jun 13, 2011 No Comments

“In the rapidly evolving airline industry, emerging technologies could play an increasingly critical role in the delivery of real and perceived customer value” (Taneja, 2010). Taneja, the author of highly interesting books on the aviation business like “Airline survival kit” (2003), “Simpli-Flying” (2004) and “Flying … Read more…

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Investigating Airports’ Market Power

May 12, 2011 No Comments

By Volodymyr Bilotkach and Andreas Polk

The ongoing liberalization process in aviation affects all segments of the industry. Nowadays we are used to thinking about airlines as competitive firms as if the industry had not been regulated, and airlines had never been state-owned monopolies. But … Read more…

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High Speed Train as a Feeder for Air Transport

Jan 30, 2011 1 Comment

This paper extends the literature by looking at the impact of high speed rail on airport competition, focusing on the new HST-link between Amsterdam and Brussels.

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